Species Detail - Willughby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Bees of Ireland".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Megachile willughbiella
Willughby's Leafcutter Bee
NHMSYS0000876303 RecommendedWell-formed
Threatened Species: Near threatened
mewil
(Kirby, 1802)
Insect - hymenopteran
Species
199
98
61
01/08/1893
11/08/2025
7 May (recorded in 1930)
4 October (recorded in 1998)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Bees of Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Willughby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella), accessed 15 December 2025, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/5/Species/56802

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)